IBM Edge 2016 is the premier global conference for IT leaders who will design, build and deliver infrastructure for the cognitive era. If you are responsible for moving your enterprise thru a digital transformation, this is the one-stop that will provide you all the information and tools you need for success. Enjoy access to hundreds of experts, explore the latest innovations and hottest trends in systems in keynotes, 1,000+ sessions, technical deep dives, and labs. Experience how IBM solutions can help you design for cognitive business... [More]

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    We are delighted to share that IBM has been positioned as a leader in the recently published Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation”.   As organizations begin their software delivery transformations by embracing a DevOps approach, the need to continuously deliver new innovation to the market increases as does the need to automate the release and deployment of software changes. According to Gartner, “By 2020, 50% of global enterprises will have implemented at least one application release... [More]

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          As a tester you are being asked to go as fast as you can but yet constantly waiting for everything to be ready to test? Maybe you are writing your own stubs – which can be brittle, fragile and broken all the time. Or waiting on other systems or your environment.  You might be waiting for the build for days or a week before testing can even start.   What if you could start testing earlier?  Think of the impact that could make to your projects.    We have seen test teams who have... [More]

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HTML5 might become the new standard in Continuous Engineering when it comes to multimedia in browser applications. As such, you need a tool for automated testing especially for regression testing. What does HTML5 do? Then, can you test HTML5 in an automated way so that you can do continuous engineering? At the end, you can see a demonstration of a functional test with IBM Rational Test Workbench Web UI. Ready for HTML5? The HTML5 specification not only replaces HTML4 but also contains more specifications. You might see the HTML5 specification... [More]

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          Join us for a webinar on Thursday, August 4 th , 1 PM EST to hear more about how do you act like a startup – nimble, energetic and creative – at enterprise scale?   Learn how companies are leveraging IBM Bluemix and GitHub Enterprise (GHE) , the most popular collaborative social coding platform, to transform software delivery, and their competitive marketplace, to win using: An innovation culture for multi-speed IT Lean and Agile development for improved cycle time, cost and quality Tools that... [More]

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When I was learning the nuances of Software quality assurance/ testing, a quote that was often spoken in the classroom was a successful test engineer should have the “Test to Break” attitude. Back then I used to wonder what is that the tester needs to break, is it the System or the code or something else. Not that I got an answer though and moved on to sell software which has gone thru’ the testing process.   In today’s era where there are multiple deployments happening across environments, how do test and... [More]

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Developing and testing complex middleware based applications is a difficult job. How can you be sure you are truly realizing the value of your investment in the newly announced WebSphere Application Server 9.0 (WAS 9.0)?  It is critical that your apps, processes and data connect in ways that are both reliable and scalable.  Lucky for you, WAS 9.0 is fully integrated with the IBM DevOps toolchain for continuous testing.   With IBM continuous testing capabilities, WAS 9.0 teams can test earlier and more... [More]

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Are you wondering what “continuous testing” really means for you and your teams, and more specifically, how to achieve continuous testing?   Everyone knows that testing takes time and it is costly, but finding ways to reduce the effort is a difficult challenge for many teams. With the increasing complexity of the hybrid cloud world, testing across multiple systems and platforms is becoming more and more difficult. We rarely have everything we need to make testing go smoothly, but teams that improve their test efficiency and... [More]

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In the age of digital disruption, where competitors can come out of nowhere, there’s no denying that DevOps continues to be the focus for LOB leaders, C-suite executives and IT delivery organizations -- with more organizations investing in automation of application deployments to build quality apps faster with less failure. As a core part of agile development, IBM UrbanCode Deploy has brought this process full speed by facilitating rapid feedback and continuous delivery --- solving many of the headaches C-level executives face on a... [More]

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  We all depend on financial services organizations to have a secure and reliable exchange of data. Every development project needs to focus on a successful client experience while minimizing IT-related failures. Quality assurance, testing and IT risk management are mission critical for financial software.    Now is a good time to reimagine your quality assurance strategy.  Can you implement quality checks earlier?  Are you running tests as often as possible?  How about integrating automated testing with release... [More]

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It is hard to believe that the term “DevOps” has been around for nearly 7 years.  Both the name and the concepts behind DevOps caught on quickly, and now an entire industry complete with methodologies, new job titles, tools, and vendors exist to support it.  Given that DevOps includes automating as much of your software delivery lifecycle as possible, this is no surprise.  Source code management, continuous integration, test automation, service virtualization, deployment automation, security, provisioning and... [More]

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Imagine a world where managing, monitoring and migrating your WebSphere environments is just a natural part of day-to-day operations instead of the all-too-common challenging events they are today. Manually maintaining a large WebSphere Application Server (WAS) installation can be time consuming, error-prone and becomes more and more risky as you advance from development to production.  Migrating to a new version of WAS can also be a huge undertaking, if done manually.  The time spent configuring the new installation and deploying all... [More]

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I am pleased to announce the availability of a new case study on the Scaled Agile, Inc. web site that describes how pôle employ, the French national employment agency embraced the SAFe methodology and used IBM’s Rational Team Concert to help them do it. In this case study, pôle emploi describes what drove them to embrace SAFe to help with delivery of a major new project. They took a practical approach to SAFe adoption, one that I recommend for any enterprise just getting started with this kind of transformation. Best practices... [More]

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IBM today announced that it plans to acquire EZSource, an Israel-based application discovery company, to help developers quickly and easily understand and change mainframe code based on data displayed on a dashboard and other visualizations.   The first step of any application change or transformation is to understand the systems, data and programs involved.  EZSource offers the deep understanding required for planning and executing application transformation and development.  Accurate and deep program and source code analysis is... [More]

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DevOps is all over the place. At IBM InterConnect 2016 DevOps was one of the top trending topics.   DevOps practitioners were seen talking (at breakouts and keynotes) and doing DevOps at the many workshops, during the interactions it was a pleasant sight to see and hear from SMEs, practitioners about DevOps in the Enterprise space.   Enterprises are innovating at startup pace making Application Delivery in the Enterprise a very interesting topic.   Digital transformation in the Enterprise is for real and Ralph Van Beek, ... [More]

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The benefits of DevOps for an organization’s culture and process are easily understood: collaboration between previously siloed teams to increase software development and delivery.  While this is the ideal picture of success and we can understand how startups and smaller companies do it, how does an enterprise even begin to embrace this kind of change?   Unfortunately, the answer is not easy.  Starting is hard, especially at an organization that has been doing development and delivery a certain way for years. That is where... [More]

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IBM is able to deliver DevOps services on-premises or SaaS on Bluemix - Bluemix provides developers with a rich cloud environment while UrbanCode can deploy to both cloud and on-premise targets. – Ovum   A DevOps approach to software development is about decreasing waste and getting innovation into the hands of the consumer with speed – eliminating bottlenecks in the software delivery pipeline. To be a disrupter and win in today’s market you need a differentiator. Having the ability to continuously deploy and test... [More]

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“IBM’s support for SAFe® will be welcomed by project managers.” - Ovum   Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Agile development practices are both fundamental concepts underlying a DevOps approach.  However, DevOps broadens the scope of ALM and Agile, promoting sustained innovation across the enterprise with participation from stakeholders beyond just the development and operations teams, and embracing lines of business, executives, partners, suppliers and customers.     As well, a new... [More]

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“IBM Bluemix PaaS provides a first-class application development environment on the cloud.” - Ovum    Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Agile development practices are both fundamental concepts underlying a DevOps approach.  However, DevOps broadens the scope of ALM and Agile, promoting sustained innovation across the enterprise with participation from stakeholders beyond just the development and operations teams, and embracing lines of business, executives, partners, suppliers and customers.  ... [More]

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The recently published 2016/2017 reports by Ovum, “Ovum Decision Matrix” names  IBM a Market Leader for DevOps Release Management, Application Lifecycle Management and Agile Project Management Solutions .  If you haven’t had access to them before,  you can download complimentary copies here.   Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting a DevOps Release Management Solution... [More]

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The Automatic Binary Optimizer for z/OS (ABO) improves the performance of already compiled COBOL programs with 15% average performance improvement on applications. ABO does not require source code recompilation, source code migration, or performance options tuning. It uses modern optimization technology to target z Systems, including z13, z13s,  zEC12, and zBC12, to accelerate the performance of existing business critical COBOL applications.   ABO leverages the latest advanced COBOL optimization technology to improve the performance... [More]

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Bluemix Garage booth at InterConnect this year was the most happening place at the expo floor. DevOps.com took a tour and interviewed two of the key leaders - Rachel Reinitz, Distinguished Engineer and CTO for IBM Bluemix Garage and Sarah Plantenberg, Design Lead for IBM Bluemix Garage. Must watch videos on Bluemix Garage and Bluemix Garage Method :                       Alan Shimel of DevOps.com interviews Rachel Reinitz and Sarah Plantenberg about IBM's Bluemix Garage and the Bluemix... [More]

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The pressure to innovate and change faster to gain a competitive edge drives software development groups to focus on development process and tooling.  Sooner or later they all realize that the only way they can make these processes work at scale is  by automating as much as possible to reduce the administrative overhead, scope for manual and the natural  drop off when process are manual and not enforced. However if everyone is doing it then you don’t have an edge.  The question then becomes how can software development... [More]

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      Google Hangout: Innovate Like a Startup, Scale for the Enterprise Wednesday, February 10 th , 2016, 1 PM EST   Join us for a Google Hangout on Wednesday, February 10 th , 1 PM EST to hear more about how to innovate like a Startup, Scale for the Enterprise.   The industry is getting disrupted by competitors you can’t see today. The winners are quick to adapt, fast to innovate. But how do you act like a startup – nimble, energetic and creative – at enterprise scale. DevOps, fused with open... [More]

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  Google Hangout: DevOps for multi-speed IT Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016, 4 PM EST Join us for a panel discussion on Wednesday, February 3 rd , 4 PM EST to hear more about DevOps for multi-speed IT. Whether you call it two-speed IT, bi-modal IT or variable-speed IT, it is a reality as teams, projects and divisions within organizations deliver business capabilities. These business capabilities are composed of services and applications that, when orchestrated, deliver business value to users. Lines of business that need these capabilities... [More]

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  I’m very excited for InterConnect 2016! It’s been a year since we delivered beta templates for SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework®) Program support in Rational Team Concert and we’ve been doing a lot since then to expand that support, enhance it for the unique requirements of our Enterprise customers and explore how we can provide differentiating capabilities in tooling that is a critical part of the IBM DevOps solution framework. If you’re new to SAFe and just need to learn what all the hype is about, or... [More]

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Are you joining us at IBM InterConnect?   IBM InterConnect 2016 is the premier Cloud & Mobile Conference taking place February 21-25, 2016 at MGM Grand & Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV. Through more than 2,000 targeted sessions led by industry leaders and IBM experts, InterConnect will help you reach your goals. From technical and business content to deep-dive technical sessions, the InterConnect curriculum is designed to help you quickly and easily realize the full value of your investment. Join us for insightful breakout sessions,... [More]

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On a long journey from Bangalore to Las Vegas, I had quite a few things on my mind as to what I will do in Vegas. But well, I had to constantly remind myself that it was not a holiday but a business trip! I was travelling to Vegas to attend the IBM premier Cloud and Mobile conference- InterConnect 2015 .  It’s IBM’s largest conference with over 20,000 attendees from across the globe covering a wide variety of topics ranging from Hybrid Cloud, Mobile, IoT and Security etc. It was while exploring the InterConnect event’s... [More]

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How do you prototype, develop and test a solution in just three weeks? Well, when you give the right people the right technology and tools, amazing things can happen. In this case, it was the innovative team at Capgemini combined with the IBM Bluemix platform which enabled the speedy delivery of a strategic solution for a logistics company in the Nordics. When you’re a logistics company, a lot of things can keep you up at night. This particular company handles about a million packages a day for large corporations and individuals, however... [More]

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